Re: status of Palm Sync

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 09:24 -0800, David L wrote:

> >> > > > I just bought a Treo 650 and was looking for info about how to use

> >>it
> >> > >with

> >> > > > FC4 when I found the posting below which says FC4 is "completely

> >>broken
> >> > >with

> >> > > > respect to Palm syncronization". Is this supposed to be addressed

> >>in
> >> > >FC5,
> >> > > > or should I "downgrade" to FC3?  Has anybody synced a Treo with
> >> > >Evolution in
> >> > > > FC5-test1?
> >[snip]
> >> > >
> >> > >Palm syn still broken. The latest packages might have solved the
> >>problem

> >> > >for a couple of people, but at least in my case, I still need Mark G.

> >> > >Adams' RPMs (see below) to get my Palm to sync.
> >> > >I've given up on bug-reports.

> >> > >Last time I counted, I found ~10 bugs related to udev ttyUSB, pilot-*

> >> > >and gnome-pilot)
> >> > >
> >> > >I'm using the fix from:
> >> > >http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/pub/people/mark_adams/
> [snip]

> >>B. I created a /etc/dev directory and created the two ttyUSB0/1 nodes by

> >>hand, pointing all pilot devices to the static device entries. This
> >>solves all udev problems.
> >
> >This worked!  It was weird... udev seemed to be creating the nodes

> >(although it took a little while), but when I statically create the device > >entries, pilot-xfer is much happier. So far, all I've done is back up, but

> >that's finally working.  :)  Now I'll try more complicated things like
> >evolution sync.
>

> I've had little luck with evolution. It seems to crash a little bit more > often on startup since I've updated the pilot rpms... I don't know if that's > just a coincidence or not. Evolution has always crashed 2x per day for me.

> One error I got was:
>
> GThread-ERROR **: file gthread-posix.c: line 160 (): error 'Device or

> resource busy' during 'pthread_mutex_destroy ((pthread_mutex_t *) mutex)'

> aborting...
> Multiple segmentation faults occurred; can't display error dialog
>
>

> I managed to sync one contact. When I tried to sync my calendar, it started > to do something and then I got a message on my Treo saying "The connecttion > between your handheld computer and the desktop was lost. Some of your data

> was NOT backed up. gnome-pilot v.2.0.13."
>
> Then a minute later on my computer: The application

> "evolution-exchange-storage" has quit unexpectedly. When I select "Inorm

> Devolopers" and select evolution, it says "This application has bug
> information, but Bug Buddy doesn't know about it.  Please choose another
> application."
>

> Then I get a message saying "Evolution tasks have quit unexpectedly"... then

> "evolution calendar has crashed unexpectedly".
>

> The installed RPMs for evolution have newer version numbers than the ones on

> the http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/pub/people/mark_adams/ site, so I didn't

> install them... should I install them even though their version is older?

>
> Thanks...
>
>                              David

My RPM versions (if it helps.)
[gilboa@gilboa-home-dev build]$ rpm -qa | egrep 'pilot|evo' | sort
evolution-2.2.3-2.fc4
evolution-data-server-1.2.3-3.fc4
gnome-pilot-2.0.13-4
gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.13-2
jpilot-0.99.8-0.pre10.fc4.1
pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2
pilot-link-devel-0.12.0-0.pre4.0.fc4.2

Gilboa

I have all of the same ones... additionally, I have:

evolution-connector-2.2.2-5
evolution-data-server-devel-1.2.3-3.fc4
evolution-devel-2.2.3-2.fc4
evolution-webcal-2.2.0-1
gnome-pilot-conduits-debuginfo-2.0.13-2
gnome-pilot-debuginfo-2.0.13-4
gnome-pilot-devel-2.0.13-4

Thanks again...

                                     David

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